A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, has accused David Mark of aiding the internal crisis currently rocking the PDP.
He recently alleged that Mark is responsible for organising the controversial national convention, which led to the party’s major crisis.
Speaking during an interview with Sunday PUNCH, Bode blasted the former senate president for abandoning the party in times of trouble, stressing that the PDP’s crisis can actually be traced to him.
According to him, Mark asking PDP members to join the ADC was really shameful, heartbreaking and disgraceful because it is a massive betrayal for him to abandon a house that nurtured him for years at the slightest sign of trouble.
“I am deeply ashamed of that statement coming from David Mark, asking PDP members to join the ADC. It is extremely disgraceful. I am heartbroken. What is annoying is that these people have chosen to abandon their father’s house, where they were born. You left a house that produced and nurtured you just because there is one crisis or the other in that house?
This is not about Mark being arrogant; he is disgraceful and unworthy. We are talking about a retired Army General here, behaving like a rolling stone that gathers no moss. I was there when our party hierarchy decided he was going to be our nominee for the Office of the Senate President. He was the Chairman of the convention that brought about the crisis in the PDP today, because they manipulated the process established by the founding fathers,” he said.
He further described Atiku, Mark and others as ingrates and a disappointment to the memories of the founding fathers of PDP.
He concluded by saying that David Mark has no right to demonise the Peoples Democratic Party, reiterating that his action is unbecoming of an ex-military personnel who was trained to show respect.
“These people are perpetually dancing on the graves of those babas who gave their lives and everything for the party. That comment he made that PDP is now a shadow of its former self is unacceptable to people like me.
He (Mark) has no right to demonise the party. If a civilian said what he said, we can ignore but we (military personnel) were trained to have respect for processes and tradition. What will these people tell their children? Who created the shadow he is talking about? Who chaired the convention where everything was turned upside down?” he added.
